Research and Related Activities
TIFO supports research on themes related to Japan, and supports projects to purchase Japanese books for research; to build network supporting Japan studies; and to promote education on Japan and Japanese language.
- The Americas
- The Americas
- Europe
- Europe, Middle East And Africa
- Asia
- Asia and Oceania
- Japan
- Japan
The projects shown on this page are those that were awarded grants at the start of the fiscal year. Their schedules and completion will be affected by circumstances, particularly the impact of the coronavirus, and some may be modified or rescheduled.
2020
The Americas
- Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
- Amplifying and Contextualizing the Premodern in Japanese Studies: Materials for Teaching Modules and Public Scholarship
Europe
- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK
- Japanese Understanding of Humanity, Religion, and Society in a Changing Age of Robotics and AI
Europe
- Sophie Richard. Inc, UK
- Research and video production on ‘Art and culture in Japan: places and people’
Europe
- King’s College London, Department of War Studies, UK
- The Propaganda Push: The International and Domestic Politics of Strategic Communication in Japan and the Asia-Pacific
Europe
- The Chester Beatty, Ireland
- Shaping a New Approach: Jack Hillier and Japanese prints after 1945
Europe
- Department Italian Institute of Oriental Studies Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
- Palaeography and the Surveying Methods of Japanese Historical Documents through the Marega Collection
Europe
- Department of East Asian Studies University of Vienna, Austria
- Study on inbound tourism promotion in Aso for development and sustainability of peripheral Japan
Europe
- Centre for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
- Japan Orientation: Retrospective and Prospects
Europe
- Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, Université de Lille, France
- Publication “The Genesis of Japan Studies in Europe: Léon de Rosny Collection in Lille”
Europe
- Nagawa-machi Breckland International Exchange Committee, Japan
- Archaeological Study on Obsidian of Siebold's Collections
Europe
- International Workshop for Cultural Heritage Management
- Comparative Study of Cultural Heritage Management
Europe
- Department of Asian Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- Workshop and lecture ‘Green Tea for Peace II’
Asia
- Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
- Promoting academic exchange in Japanese studies between Vietnam, Europe and the US
Asia
- NPO Japan-India Friendship Association
- Understanding and responding to the current situation of Japan understanding among Chinese and Indian university students
Asia
- Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development
- Research for Dissemination of Decentralized Energy System:Comparison and Dialogue between Japan and Malaysia
Japan
- Independent Administrative Institution National Institute for Cultural Heritage, Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
- English translation of "preservation and restoration of iron structures"
Japan
- Medieval Japanese Studies Institute
- Contextualizing the Conservation of the Taireifuku the Meiji Empress Gifted to Daishōji Imperial Convent
Japan
- CODAMA : Citizen Oriented Digital Archives of Mythology and Anthropology/Archeology
- Mode and Function of Tradition and Innovation: International Collaboration on Analyzing Japanese Folktale and Ritual Database
Japan
- Okaerihouse (bistream GmbH)
- Okaerihouse
Japan
- Tohoku University -International Institute of Disaster Science
- Global Kataribe Workshop Project (GKWP)
Japan
- Japan Trad Innovators Association
- Japan Trad Innovator project
Japan
- Onnatachi no Kominka
- High-end inbound development utilizing high-class local sake and old folk houses